Collecting public taxes for the provision of tourist services in protected areas: examples from the Canary Islands

The protected areas have turned into ideal scenes for the territorial development of recreative activities outdoors. These are specially demanded for those that are constructed around the nature tourist product. New needs and challenges arise for the protected areas, which need of a more opened set and flex of formulae of territorial planning and management. With the vocation of being an instrumental article in the matter of territorial planning of the tourist, its main objective is to identify and to analyze the potentialities and weaknesses of the payment system for the rendering of tourist services or for the utilization of the equipments that shape the public use system of the protected areas from double perspectives: as a generation of economic income device and as territorial planning and management mechanism of its tourist use.